Slump of procrastination and increativity continues

But there is PROGRESS!

I still stare longingly into the blank canvas of Photoshop, Wacom pen poised gently in hand. So much potential, limitless even. Yet I cannot seem to mark a shred of pixels to the page. I give up, and end up watching random Youtube videos about a bunch of kids with tin whistles.

However, I have been consistently waking up at approxamately 9:00am each morning. It's been rather consistent, and it feels good. I go to bed when I'm tired, and wake up at 9. This allows me to enjoy the wonderful summer morning air (It gets rather hot in the afternoon here.), and I don't lose any sleep. I get a solid 7-8 hours of sleep each night, and my time is spent during the day, when normal people conduct the business of their daily lives.

Man was not meant to be nocturnal. To try is going against the very grain of nature. It's tiring, and rather soul-sucking.

I'm also eating better. I used to eat 3, massive meals, and I would fill the times in between with bouts of binge-eating from whatever is in the cupboard. I now try and eat smaller portions with each meal, and I fill the cupboard with healthy, low calorie foods. I've nearly cut sugar out entirely, and when I get so hungry I need to eat SOMETHING, I simply go nuts on a bunch of baby carrots or some pico-de-gallo and hot sauce rolled up in a whole wheat tortilla, and wash it down with a no-calorie, sugar free glass of lemonade. My weight has been steadily dropping, which is good because I'm well into the overweight range right now. (But below obesity. Yay Wii Fit.)

The one scrap of creativity I churned out was kind of nice. It was a very quick series of character sketches. A rather large headed, simple character based roughly on myself. I'm not sure it's going anywhere, but it was something.

But so far, normal waking hours and Diet Mountain Dew have not kicked me from my creative limbo. Motivation is still in the crapper, and it seems the only thing I have achieved is that I feel better as a person. Livelier. Sharper.

It's a start, I guess.